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Table 1 Sample characteristics (n = 943)

From: Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada

Characteristic

 

Min, Maxa

Child

Age, M (SD)

12.22 (1.23)

9, 15

Male (%)

47.5

-

1st generation (%)

59.2

-

 Externalizing problems—parent, M (SD)

44.45 (8.67)

33, 77

 Externalizing problems—child, M (SD)

44.83 (9.79)

29, 84

 Internalizing problems—parent, M (SD)

48.41 (10.82)

33, 84

 Internalizing problems—child, M (SD)

51.27 (10.07)

27, 83

Family

 Below Low-Income Measure (LIM) (%)

57.1

-

 Parental educational attainment (%)

  

  High school or less

24.6

-

  Below Bachelor's

26.6

-

  Bachelor's or above

48.8

-

 Parental English fluency (%)

  Native speaker/fluent

38.8

-

  Proficient

53.2

-

  Poor

8.0

-

 Parent arrived as refugeeb (%)

28.2

-

 Parent years in Canada, M (SD)

16.73 (12.33)

0, 59

 Parental lifetime trauma exposure, M (SD)

1.75 (2.16)

0, 11

 Parental perceived discrimination (%)

  High

22.4

-

  Low

25.0

-

  None

52.6

-

 Parental distress, M (SD)

16.21 (6.81)

10, 50

 Parenting behaviour

  Positive parenting—parent, M (SD)

46.22 (4.34)

29, 50

  Positive parenting—child, M (SD)

44.69 (6.01)

10, 50

  Negative parenting—parent, M (SD)

8.43 (2.81)

5, 20

  Negative parenting—child, M (SD)

8.69 (2.92)

5, 24

Neighbourhood

 First generation immigrants, % (SD)

34.17 (14.14)

-

 Median household income (in thousands), M (SD)

68.37 (27.11)

21.22, 151.60

 Unemployment rate, M (SD)

9.42 (8.75)

0, 46.20

 Level of neighbourhood disorder, M (SD)c

8.87 (1.60)

7, 19

  1. M = Mean; SD = Standard deviation
  2. a Minimum and maximum observed values
  3. b Includes parents who arrived in Canada as a refugee, was or is currently a refugee claimant/ asylum seeker or has ever lived in a refugee camp
  4. c Parent-reported neighbourhood disorder aggregated at the Census Dissemination Area